Fun facts about your state

If you look on a N.C. map aand locate my town (High Point) and then look a bit N.W you will see Horneytown and from that look a bit S.E. you will find Climax.

We also have: Frog Level
Swepsonville
Flat Rock
Beargrass
Ossipee
Osceola
Fuquay Varina
Elk Knob
Goosecreek
Pettigrew
Jockeys Ridge
Raven Rock
Chimney Rock
Fairplains
Halfmoon
Jasper
Lizzie
Supply
Shelmerdine
 
The King Ranch is larger than the state of Rhode Island.
In Galveston, it is illegal to have a camel run loose on the beach.
Stealin’ cows is still a hang-able offense.
Texas experiences the most tornadoes of any state (average 139/yr).
Approximately 90% of the world’s recoverable helium is under Amarillo
We were the only state to enter the US by treaty (as opposed to annexation).
With few exceptions, all land in Texas is state or privately owned.

Aside: the man who sang Okie From Muskogee hated that song-his reality and beliefs were markedly different than the values he sang about in that tune.
 
The longest river in the U.S. by miles, the Missouri River, begins in Montana at the “Three Forks” - the intersection of the Gallatin, Madison and Jefferson Rivers.

Steelslaver, I thought the headwaters of the Missouri were further southwest of there, at Lemhi Pass, where a member of the Corps of Discovery finally stood astride it during the epic expedition led by Lewis and Clark, confirming that there was no continuous navigable waterway all the way to the Pacific.

A related point of interest about the "Triple Divide" mentioned later in your list: it is located in the remote interior of Glacier National Park, accessible only by very determined hikers!
 
Yeah, that part about Oklahoma having more shoreline than any other state is something I've heard my whole life but I don't know how they are measuring it. Maybe they're counting all the mud puddles and pot holes.
 
Yes but do you have a Bloody Dick Creek?

Named after the guy who settled nearby in 1860. Great trout fishing. The US forest service has a single cabin there available to rent

Owie!

Here in North Carolina, we have a "Sh** Britches Creek" up in Buncombe County (home of Asheville), named by early settlers who had witnessed a Native American washing the you-know-what out of his pants there.

I can't attest to the quality of the fishing in that creek, though I'd probably stay away from the brown trout. :D
 
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A tailor in Reno, NV is the actual inventor of what we call "Levi's" or denim pants today. The durability of his work pants created such a demand by the miners of Nevada that his little shop couldn't keep up. He went to his denim cloth supplier in San Francisco by the name of "Levi Strauss" and asked for financial help to patent his creation. Levi recognized the potential for sales, financed the patent and hired Jacob Davis to supervise that part of 'Levi Strauss'. Jacob moved to San Fran and worked there until his death in 1908.
 
South Carolina:

In 11 March 1958 a nuke accidentally fell on Mars Bluff, SC. "The bomb was a 26-kiloton Mark 6, a more powerful version of the Fat Man dropped on Nagasaki. It mistakenly fell out of a B-47 jet, dropping 15,000 feet into the back yard of Walter Gregg and his family. The plutonium core didn't explode, but the 6,000 pounds of conventional high explosives detonated, transforming the Gregg's vegetable garden into a vast muddy crater and destroying their house."

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Hey, not to be outdone by the South Carolinians, we had one of those A-bomb mishaps ourselves in 1961, when a B-52 broke up in mid-air and unleashed its two-bomb payload that landed near, of all places, a town called Eureka.

1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash - Wikipedia

One of my cousins worked for a state agency that was responsible for monitoring sites for radiation levels, and he would go to this one once a year.
 
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On North Carolina's northern Outer Banks, we have (in descending order from north to south), Duck, Kill Devil Hills, Nags Head, Waves, and (how appropriate for this Forum) Salvo.

Wild ponies on the northern end, and more along the Crystal Coast at Shackleford Banks and Carrot Island next to Beaufort. (BO-furt, not BEW-furt, the one in South Carolina).

My home is just down the road from Frog Level.:)
 
Interesting Mississippi Facts:
The name Mississippi is believed to be derived from an Indian word that means 'Father of Waters', 'great river' or 'gathering of waters'.
Mississippi's capital city is Jackson, which is also its largest city.
Mississippi residents are called Mississippians.
Mississippi's state nickname is the Magnolia State.
The state motto for Mississippi is 'Virtute et arms', which means 'By valor and arms'.
Mississippi's state song is 'Go Mis-sis-sip-pi'.
Mississippi's original flag was the Magnolia Flag which had been chosen in 1861. In 1894 the official state flag that still exists today was adopted.
Mississippi's state bird is the mockingbird and its state game bird is the wood duck.
The state mammal is the white-tailed deer and the state water mammal is the bottle-nosed dolphin.
Mississippi has a southern shoreline on the Gulf of Mexico.
The state fish for Mississippi is the largemouth bass and the state insect is the honeybee.
Mississippi's state flower is the bloom or flower of the magnolia and the state tree is also the magnolia.
Mississippi's major rivers include Yazoo River, Pearl River, Big Black River and the Mississippi River.
Mississippi's major lakes include Grenada Lake, Sardis Lake, Arkabutla Lake, and Ross Barnett Reservoir.
Mississippi's agriculture includes cotton, rice, corn and soybeans.
The major industry in Mississippi includes fishing, transportation equipment, electronic equipment, oil and textiles.
Mississippi is the leading producer in the world of pond-raised catfish. Of the 140,000 national acres of catfish ponds, Mississippi is home to 100,000 of them.
There are 82 counties in Mississippi, and 24 state parks.
The first human lung transplant in the world was performed at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi in 1935.
Liberty, Mississippi was the first U.S. town to build a Confederate monument.
The Norris Bookbinding Company in Greenwood is the largest plant in the U.S. binding Bibles.
The second largest cotton exchange in the U.S. called Cotton Row is located in Greenwood.
Greenwood, Mississippi is known as the cotton capital of the world.
Belzoni, Mississippi is known as the catfish capital of the world.
Greenville, Mississippi is known as the towboat capital of the world.
Vardaman, Mississippi is known as the sweet potato capital of the world.
Edward Adolf Barq, Sr. was the inventor of root beer. He developed the popular beverage in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1898.

And lastly, I live here. :D
 
Haven't seen any fun facts about Colorado.

Probably because there's nothing funny about what's happening to what was once a great State.
 
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